Belle-Vue Kriek

Brewed by Belle-Vue (InBev)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottle. Berry aroma, apple taste with a dry sherry finish. Dark red colour, lovely foam. A bit artificial, though.

UPDATED: FEB 1, 2007 Very sweet, but a lovely brew with its own characteristics...the ladies love it

Bottle, very cold (about 4C). Dirty red with a large pink head. Aroma of cherry variety children’s medication, wheaty mustiness. Taste is not hugely sweet this cold with some cherry flavour - doesn’t taste anything like as artificial as it smells. There’s a little lambic buried here - you can just feel the acidity and there’s a teensy bit of funkiness - but mostly it’s seems like a slightly adult twist on a sweet drink in the same way as a squash and bitters. Dry finish is quite woody. Refreshing.

Valentine’s day and something special for my 300th review from my better half. Poured into a thin tulip it shows a light brandy-sherry color. 3 finger pink tinted meringue head. Wonderful nose: fruity, medicinal, slightly musty with a wisp of treacle. Slick mouthfeel dominance of fruit but there is a subtle but constant undertone of horse blanket layered with spice, earth...finish is wet, sour, musty with fruit over tones. Wonderfully layered between sweet-sour-bitter-musty. Wonderful stuff. I like it so kill me.

Latest Rating: Just as good looking as the first rating but the aroma and flavour are not quite as artificial as I remember. I like my lambics a little stronger in character but it’s a good introductory lambic to bring along for newbies and the ladies.
First rated 4/26/2002: 2.8 98% of the bottle pours a clear cherry-rasberry red colour, and mid- pink-red, fine, medium lasting head. A trace of sediment left in bottle. Fruity somewhat artificially sweet aroma. Typical kriek fruity, slightly musty, flavour with moderately well balanced sour-sweet palate and sour-dry refreshing finish. There are better krieks out there. Would get a better overall rating in hotter weather.

UPDATED: MAR 22, 2005 i love this beer, my first lambic. people at my football team used to laugh at me for drinking it, b/c they thought it’s chicky. no matter, i love it and order it ever time after the football game.

A trade-off between authentic Lambic sharpness/mustiness, and the super clean watery-sweet stuff Mort Subite is pumping out of the factory spigot. Not bad and not great.

Tap. This style is way too sweet for me. Aroma is just cherries, which I like. Flavour is just sweet, with no balance. Medium body in the palate, with an oily texture. Red colour, fizzy, with a thin, long-lasting head.